By Sherman Frederick/Properly Subversive
There’s an interesting case percolating in Salt Lake City. Jocelyn Boden is suing her former employer, Bath & Body Works, alleging she was fired because she wouldn’t use the preferred pronouns of a co-worker
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Boden, a Mormon, said she was terminated after declining to use male pronouns for a woman identifying as a man. She cited her religion as the reason for her refusal. Her lawyer said:
“No one should be forced to choose between their job and their faith.”
A Bath & Body Works spokesperson said the company:
“Complies with all laws concerning employment practices.”
To both sides I say: Blah, blah, blah.
From what I gather from a bird’s-eye view, employee Bowden told the store that she would be happy to call her co-worker by name, but would not lie about her gender.
I don’t know why the store, in turn, wouldn’t say, “Fine, call him Bob. Just don’t use pronouns unless it is the pronoun Bob wants to be called by.”
They couldn’t come to an accommodation, so now it’s in the courts.
Sometimes, there are hard cases in this grand experiment of governance called America in which lofty rights compete.
This isn’t one of them.
Joyce Boden, by all accounts an excellent store manager, is willing to continue to work for Bath & Body Works and work around the pronoun preference of a trans co-worker.
Why Bath & Body Works can’t accept that accommodation is another signpost on the road to tyranny of the un-American left. Does “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”mean all must bow to the whims of virtue signalling of the trans community?
Isn’t the application of common courtesy enough?
It should be.
If I am wrong on this, please set me straight.
SWEET JUSTICE
When justice comes, it comes plainly for all to see.
That happened last week in the wake of a New York appeals decision that dismissed a half-billion-dollar judgment against President Donald Trump and his companies for “over-valuing “their properties in financial statements.
The case itself was silly overreach, but the fine was excessive in the extreme. It was levied by a vain and biased judge who fell in line with a corrupt New York Attorney General and encouraged and facilitated by the highest powers within the Democratic Party, which controlled the White House and Congress.
It was one of several attempts by Democrats in power at the White House to squash a political opponent.
Look, I have several friends who rooted for what happened in New York because they hated Trump and feared the kind of rule he might bring to the country.
I hope they are doing some soul-searching now.
Trump’s first eight months in office in his second term have been nothing short of spectacular. The economy has turned around, the border is fixed, and he’s bringing peace to the world.
(OK, the peace thing has a ways to go, but at least he’s trying, and that’s a good deal, right?)
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley called the fine levied by Judge Arthur Engoron in the case “so absurdly inflated that they were rejected in their entirety. In the end, he was off by over half a billion dollars.”
The case was law fare, pure and simple.
One of the appeals judges, David Friedman, dressed down Judge Engoron, saying the underlying law “has never been used in the way it is being used in this case – namely, to attack successful, private, commercial transactions, negotiated at arm’s length between highly sophisticated parties fully capable of monitoring and defending their own interests.”
And Judge Friedman put his finger on the dark heart of this case: Judge Engoron and A.G. Letitia James were doing this to derail “President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business.”
This case was part of a deliberate effort by the powers that be to cripple a political opponent. The “Russia collusion” smear has now been totally disproven. Justice is coming for deep state intelligence officials and for former President Barack Obama. The Georgia election interference case is over first because it was a stretch from the start, and secondly because of the crazy sexual appetite of Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis.
Eventually, it will fully unravel because it was lawfare designed not for justice, but for power.
No other way to see it.
(Sherman R. Frederick is a longtime Nevada journalist. You see more of his writing at shermanfrederick.substack.com.
